Which third party apps are still working? Apollo stopped working on July 1. In fact, it stopped working a few hours earlier than expected.

Nobody was objecting to paying for the API. Reddit had been foreshadowing it for months and third party devs thought the idea was entirely reasonable.

Reddit then released the pricing structure and told devs they had thirty days to implement the required changes. That pricing structure was ludicrous to the point of being a clear indication that third party apps were no longer welcome in the ecosystem.

You don't need to be big time to have an RSS feed. If you're using a blogging platform you'll have an RSS feed automatically. Even if you roll your own site an RSS feed is only going to be an extra line or two of whatever language you're using.

My blog isn't big --- I'm lucky to post once in six months, and average two hits a day, and those are usually bots --- yet I have an RSS feed.

Well, damn! My inner nine-year-old is rather pleased and doing his 'I told you so!' dance in my current self's direction.

It's been a long time since I studied any paleontology. Has the status of the brontosaurus gone from 'Whoops, never existed!' to 'Double whoops! Turns out it did!'?

South Australia is not a town. Just sayin'.

The NBN has been cocked up by the (Liberal) federal government. This is a (Labor) state government matter.

You're partly right though---copyright law is a federal matter and the SA government couldn't pass this law if they wanted to.

If he was trying to observe the transit of Venus at night I doubt clouds were the problem. He might have had more success if he stayed on his own side of the planet.

Doesn't sound very private to me. I kinda like to think that when I kill a single-use tab it stays dead.

The preferred phrase, which has been used by at least two of our Prime Ministers, is 'arse end of the world.' It wasn't a specific reference to the internet, but it's nice to see our national epithet is so flexible.

Dropbox can only store files locally if you have local storage.

True. For an adult worker the minimum wage is $15.96 ($US16.45) per hour. At casual rates (no sick leave or paid holidays) that works out to just over $19 ($US19.60) p/h.

Teenagers get a bit less. My 15yo daughter gets $10.50 p/h in her weekend job.

When we bought the DVD set I watched Jurassic Bark once and swore never again. No show has ever reduced me to a blubbering mess that quickly (although the opening scene of Pixar's 'UP' is a pretty close second.)

In fact, a small, brown unloved mongrel who looked just like Seymour owes his life to my family seeing that episode.

And if I remember rightly, that change didn't go down too well in Australia.

Tracking the baton movement could be fairly difficult though. Even squeezing out a beat while concentrating on singing might be more difficult than it appears. I mean, just following the conductor rather than the musicians around you can be a challenge even for experienced musicians. I've done a fair bit of conducting, and I know how hard it can be to get a band to realise you actually want them to go a bit faster! Getting someone to do that and communicate it in two dimensions in real time while actually singing properly... that would be a special singer indeed!

Actually, that could be a rather interesting exercise. Getting members of the choir to track the conductor's movement on someone else's hand (who then have to concentrate on the hand signals rather than what other people are singing) could be a good way to reinforce the importance of paying attention to the dude/dudette with the stick!